Oct-Nov 2022

A list of books, audiobooks, podcasts, television, and more that I am consuming.
A list of achievements, articles, or plans in the shop to showcase my production.

This series also maps my consumer habits: my time on media can lead to more projects and purchases, as well as influences my thoughts.

What I am Reading this Month:

Malign Velocities, Benjamin Noys

(paused) Slavoj Zizek, Sex and the Failed Absolute

(slowly reading) Slavoj Zizek, “For they know not what they do: enjoyment as a political factor“

• I am part of the “zizek & so on” book club

Articles that had an impact:

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System, Donella Meadows

Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception by Adorno and Horkheimer

Vivid Abstractions, Venkatesh Rao

Cozy Futurism, José Luis Ricón (Artir)

Rioting & Looting: As a Modern-Day Form of Potlatch, Neal Keating

Elite Capture, Nicholas Whittaker

The Death of Intellectual Curiosity, Naval Ravikant (Sven Schnieders)

What I am listening to this month:

Audio Books:

The Light of All that Falls, James Islington (highly recommended series)

A Master of Djinn, Clark (I paused it and never started it again.)

Podcasts:

Acid Horizon

• Lyotard or Marx? The Evil Legacy of ‘Libidinal Economy’

Being Well w Doctor Rick & Forest Hanson

• Discovering Your Wants and Needs

Ezra Klein Show

• The Single Best Guide to Decarbonization I’ve Heard

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

• Sean Bowden – The Priority of Events — Deleuze’s Logic of Sense

Making Sense (Sam Harris)

• #301 – The Politics of Unreality — Ukraine and Nuclear Risk

New Books in Systems & Cybernetics

• Technocracy Now! Part 2 — Exploring Technocracy Through Cybernetics

Outsider Theory

• Universal Basic MKUltra With Psyop Cinema

The Philosopher’s Zone

• How Nietzsche Extracts Cheerfulness From Suffering
• Satanism

Ram Dass Here & Now

• Where Impeccability Lies

The Life of the Mind, Julian de Medeiros

• Image, the gaze, and kitsch

Transmitter Podcast

• 63 – Prof. Benjamin Noys, “Malign Velocities” Author

Waking Up (meditation app)

• The coincidence of Opposites, Alan Watts

Zizke & So On

• Surplus Enjoyment!
• Content on Form

Music:

• Wet Leg
• Black angels “wilderness of mirrors”
• Taylor Swift “midnights”
• Secret Machines “awake in the brain” and “secret machines”
• BRMC

What I am streaming this month:

• Orville #hulu
• Peaky Blinders (season 6: complete!)
• Cabinet of Curiosities #netflix
• The Peripheral (William Gibson) #Amazon (recommended)
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (recommended)
• a trip to infinity #netflix #documentary

Youtube history:

Consuming:

What I want:

A CNC router, probably the Onefinity Journeyman.

Etching stuff: to etch patterns and images on tools.

New sound systems for house and office: won’t do it, but it is fun to look.

What I got:

1 vinyl album: Pink Floyd, The Wall

1 book: China Mieville, “a spectre haunting” – on communism

iPad mini 6 _ I could write a whole article on all the research I did before this purchase.

• purchased the iPad used for $500, but still spent about $800 on all the stuff.
• Apple pencil 2 is great.
• Zugu case is great.
• Little keyboard is good,
• multiport dock is a lifesaver.

gift from mom: apple watch, series 8 & a beautifully illustrated book

Knipex sent me a new set of pliers (when the previous set broke)

digital protractor

Jessem router guides

Bridge City Tools: Center Scribe & Miter squares

The Philosopher’s Tarot, from Repeater Books (Acid Horizon podcast)

Tech stuff

What I produced:

Podcasts:

Step 67: Accelerationism & Futurism

Art Stuff

Completed 6 total art shields.

Wine label is a success.

Learning how to draw on an iPad

DIY Stuff

Paper towel holder

Leigh Dovetail Jigg Box or crate for storage, which doubles as a clamping station and height increase while using the jig.

More tools were added to the french cleat wall. (mostly my Bridge City layout tools.)

Life Stuff

Two trips to Birmingham, one trip to Atlanta, and a Pickle Ball outing.

Also, appeared on a new episode of “Helpful for Life” about therapy.

Belly Button Lint

I have also kept up with my daily posts to my naval gazing blog.
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